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Do relationships with big age gaps last?

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  • #632
    Baggly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,024 ✭✭✭✭Baggly


    Stoner wrote:
    Would that count as lasting? I'm not suggesting that couples have to die together to constitute the relationship lasting. But at the same time it only lasted for 50 percent of those involved


    Are you asking if death is a legitimate way of ending a relationship?

    I would say yes.


  • #633
    tomwaterford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    Stoner wrote: »
    Quick question. Lets say a 50 year old married a 30 year old.
    After twenty years the now 50 year old is 70 and dies.

    The other person is only 50 at that stage.

    Would that count as lasting? I'm not suggesting that couples have to die together to constitute the relationship lasting. But at the same time it only lasted for 50 percent of those involved

    I assume after 20 years you can count it as lasting?


  • #634
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,344 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Stoner wrote: »
    Would that count as lasting?

    I think so. I _suspect_ that when people talk about a relationship lasting they are not really thinking in terms of time. They are thinking in terms of the relationship only ending due to natural causes or other unpreventable or unforeseen termination of it.

    So if they stay together for only one week before one of them dies I would consider that "lasting". If they stayed together 40 years and then divorced and never saw each other again - I would consider that not lasting.

    So "lasting" - for me at least - is not about the length of the relationship in time so much as it is about the reasons why the relationship eventually ends.


  • #635
    Lucyfur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,513 ✭✭✭✭Lucyfur


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    Is that the child or your OH you're referring to?


  • #636
    Permabear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 38,989 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


    This post has been deleted.


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  • #637
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    Lucyfur wrote: »
    Is that the child or your OH you're referring to?

    giphy.gif


  • #638
    The Moldy Gowl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,889 ✭✭✭✭The Moldy Gowl


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    Where its domiciled or what the aum wont give away anything. What does it trade in?
    Equities? Options? Cfds?

    Daily trading? Monthly?


    Dont be googling what does words mean. Im just trying to find plot holes here. I cant imagine having that much time on your hands if you work in funds. Lotta deadlines.


  • #639
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    I love this thread.


  • #640
    Malari
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,150 ✭✭✭✭Malari


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    Would you identify them on this thread?
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057768067

    :pac:


  • #641
    izzyflusky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 427 ✭✭izzyflusky


    I met my husband when I was 19 (going on 20) and he was 30. 9 years (5 of marriage) and 2 children later we are doing great.


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  • #642
    The Moldy Gowl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,889 ✭✭✭✭The Moldy Gowl


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    Where its domiciled or what the aum wont give away anything. What does it trade in?
    Equities? Options? Cfds?

    Daily trading? Monthly?


    Dont be googling what does words mean. Im just trying to find plot holes here. I cant imagine having that much time on your hands if you work in funds. Lotta deadlines.


  • #643
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    Malari wrote: »
    Would you identify them on this thread?
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057768067

    :pac:

    At least now we know where to go when this thread is shut down


  • #644
    Permabear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 38,989 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


    This post has been deleted.


  • #645
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    I'm not a stranger to synonyms if that's your mine gripe! It's unorthodox, atypical, unusual, out of the ordinary etc etc.

    Look I'm sure you're both happy in your fully symbiotic set-up. She was a single teen mom whose baby sitter offered to take the post full time with loads of perks. Meanwhile you got an uber cool sea-bather/gamer nerd who gigs at the local coffee shop and is fresh as a daisy.

    Fair dues to you both, it worked out. I wonder if she loves you plastering the details of her private life all over the internet as much as you seem to love doing it.


  • #646
    The Moldy Gowl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,889 ✭✭✭✭The Moldy Gowl


    Malari wrote: »
    Would you identify them on this thread?
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057768067

    :pac:

    He isnt wrong. If he gave me details fot the fund i can easily find out who is behind it. Im just calling his bluff because he wouldnt be allowed spend so much time on boards in work.


  • #647
    Mayoman007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28 ✭Mayoman007


    If the male is10 to 20 years older, it would work fine compare to them where is female is on older side


  • #648
    WHIP IT!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,887 ✭✭✭WHIP IT!


    Zaph wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    So... this lad got all the Likes and oodles of Love. Twas all very Liberal and all very "hey man, live and let live"....

    But this guy....
    Permabear wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    .... is getting an awful going over....

    What's that all 'bout...??


  • #649
    Permabear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 38,989 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


    This post has been deleted.


  • #650
    Lucyfur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,513 ✭✭✭✭Lucyfur


    The Moldy Gowl wrote: »
    He isnt wrong. If he gave me details fot the fund i can easily find out who is behind it. Im just calling his bluff because he wouldnt be allowed spend so much time on boards in work.

    Compu global hyper mega net


  • #651
    Permabear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 38,989 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


    This post has been deleted.


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  • #652
    Rumpy Pumpy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,047 ✭✭✭Rumpy Pumpy


    The Moldy Gowl wrote: »
    He isnt wrong. If he gave me details fot the fund i can easily find out who is behind it. Im just calling his bluff because he wouldnt be allowed spend so much time on boards in work.

    In fairness to the dude, asking him about who he works for is none of your business. Would you be happy to fire up where you work?

    Think you need to step away from the keyboard and go for a walk or something.


  • #653
    Pac1Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,407 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    Rumpy Pumpy wrote: »
    Think you need to step away from the keyboard and go for a walk or something.

    Yeah Moldy. Go pick up a young one.


  • #654
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    You're right, go back to telling us about how your ex in her 30's (you know the one you used to babysit with) wasn't as mature as the young lady who swims in the ocean.


  • #655
    The Moldy Gowl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,889 ✭✭✭✭The Moldy Gowl


    Rumpy Pumpy wrote: »
    In fairness to the dude, asking him about who he works for is none of your business. Would you be happy to fire up where you work?

    Think you need to step away from the keyboard and go for a walk or something.

    Nahhhhhh


  • #656
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,417 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Yes, it's really been condensed down to its essence now


  • #657
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    WHIP IT! wrote: »
    So... this lad got all the Likes and oodles of Love. Twas all very Liberal and all very "hey man, live and let live"....

    But this guy....

    .... is getting an awful going over....

    What's that all 'bout...??

    I'll wager the first guy didn't babysit for his wife's child from a previous relationship with his then current partner and then take over daddy duties of said child full time. I've heard stories (mostly fiction) of guys running off with the babysitter but seldom the other way around. It's all very Jerry Springer in North Cackalacky.


  • #658
    Yourself isit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,256 ✭✭✭Yourself isit


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    Will I asked anyway. Also yesterday was Wednesday


  • #659
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,867 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The Moldy Gowl wrote: »
    Nahhhhhh

    You come at the king, you better not miss.


  • #660
    The Moldy Gowl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,889 ✭✭✭✭The Moldy Gowl


    Pac1Man wrote: »
    Yeah Moldy. Go pick up a young one.

    Sure i cant even get them to talk to me.

    All i have is crap jokes and bitterness and crippling depression.


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  • #661
    LadyMacBeth_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,070 ✭✭✭LadyMacBeth_


    The Moldy Gowl wrote: »
    Sure i cant even get them to talk to me.

    All i have is crap jokes and bitterness and crippling depression.

    Ah moldy, come and have a swim in the sea with me, it makes everything better. I am a bitter old crone though.


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